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Updated: July 15, 2025

He hes a way, sir, a way of his own with children, and I hev wondered often what is the secret of it." "What do you mean?" "I'll give you an example, sir. You know Silas Bolton hes a very bad lad, but the other day he went to Lugur and confessed he had stripped old Padget's apple-tree. Well, Lugur listened to him and talked to him and then lifted his leather strap and gave him a dozen good licks.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - The Measure of a Man